I love trees and nature.

Trees and natural spaces matter to our ecosystem!

While I agree that wildfire mitigation is necessary, the methodology used by DMP seems extremist.

I have lived next to a Denver Mtn Park for 40 years. Last year, they started logging mature trees under the excuse of fire mitigation. They took out almost all the big trees on our side of the park. the skinny little (not marketable) trees they left will burn much more quickly than the fire-resistant large trees they removed. They have left slash and logs all over the ground - increasing the danger of a wildfire, not reducing it.

I have lived in Evergreen for 46 years. In the last 2 years I have seen the devastation caused by the clear cutting of mature and old growth trees. In Fillius Park, the lack of shade causes the sun to dry out the soil - it used to hold the snow late into June. You can hear the plants crunch underfoot, it is so dry. Our park is destroyed - only skinny little trees left on the north side. Last spring, a windstorm from the west took down 50 trees. And there is slash and logs strewn all over the ground - increasing the fire danger to our homes. Repeated requests for cleanup have gone unanswered. This is what is in store for Stanley Park. Denver Mtn Parks is not doing fire mitigation. They are logging.

"Wildfire fuel reduction" logging heats up and dries out the forest microclimate, which can make fires start easier, burn more intensely—including igniting crown fires—while opening stands that allow wind to spread flames quicker to nearby communities, potentially overwhelming firefighters.

forest management is unknowingly destroying our forest land in the name of false science regarding fire mitigation

I am so grateful for our abundant natural parks. I hike regularly and have hiked most of the area parks.
In these areas that have been 'treated', the forest ecosystem has been decimated. A vast sea of wood chips with only a few trees left standing. Hot dry conditions with no ground vegetation left. Our forest and its habitats gone. This work is making drought and fire conditions worse.
It is heart-breaking to experience these special places after all the trees have been cut down.

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The deforestation is without scientific support. We need the trees to support a healthy ecosystem. This should be voted on.

Evergreen is becoming decimated by extreme deforestation. Beautiful parks are becoming barren. Majestic trees are killed while some dead trees remain

I have hiked in Evegreen for 30 plus years. Now I hike and see downed trees, slash piles, and stumps where it once was beautiful. Dead trees and slash are prime materials for fire fuel. Now when lightning strikes it will ignite dry dead timber and will spread faster with so much dead debris on the ground. Wildlife habitats have been destroyed. Microclimates for native vegetation have been destroyed.

I love hiking

There is considerable research showing that tree thinning is not the best approach to fire mitigation

The tree cutting I’ve witnessed is excessive. Too many trees are being removed and it doesn’t look like a beautiful forest afterward, it looks post apocalyptic. Certainly there can be a balance?

I don’t believe that cutting all these trees is the answer. I’d rather see a swath cut that could help stop a fire. I don’t understand how cutting every other tree stops fires. It takes decades for these trees to grow to significant heights. This is not the answer!!!!

We are RUINING the parks entirely, NOT saving them! We are not even considering the new info / science /data that exists since mitigation efforts began years ago. (negative impacts on the forest, and minimal positive effect on mitigation)

Concern that fire reduction mitigation actions have instead become a logging operation for profit

More research needs to be done to prove the value of the tree cutting.

This is destroying our parks and goes way beyond reasonable fire mitigation

I want evidence based methods with wildlife being just as important as human houses.

I have been hiking in my local Denver Mountain Park for decades until your contractor clear-cut an entire hillside and adjoining drainage. No single small trees, 2-3 ft tall, were left. Ground is now littered with slash that is difficult and hazardous to walk on.

Overzealous interventions usually lead to more disasters than
letting nature do the work as we observe and learn

This is commercial logging under the guise of public service. Disrupting animal habitats, and clear cutting is NOT ecologically sustainable and seeing the methodology used, it is clear no real arborists or ecologists are involved in this commercial operation funded by taxpayer dollars

Having a BS degree in forestry and being a city forester for a local city I have some concerns about this mitigation program. I have been a homeowner in Evergreen for 39 years.

I often walk in the parks in Evergreen, and I am distressed at the apparent clear-cutting. A whole field of stumps is so ugly. And contributes to global warming because there are less trees. I am grateful for this petition to be able to express my hope that the clear-cutting will stop. Thinning is fine but I can't believe that cutting whole swaths makes the fire danger to the surrounding non-cut forest any less.

Concerns for wildlife, beauty of the mountain, lack of trees behind our house is devastating and living there over 30 years and never an issue, is so sad to see, runoff issues

I have lived in the mountains for a long time and there is a right and wrong way for fire mitigation. Clear cutting destroys animal habitat, ecosystems and the reason people love the mountains. It takes a long time for forests to replenish at altitude.

Entirely too many trees have been cleared

Destruction of existing ecosystem is occurring and no evidence tree cutting improves
Damage the ecosystem is inexcusable

I am concerned about the aggressive fire mitigation that has destroyed our local parks. Ive read very conflicting effects of such drastic tree cutting.